Over the next year, I’m guessing that we’ll see Hillary Clinton continue the leftward movement on the war that began a couple of days ago. It’s hard to see anything but political calculation in her early hawkishness, and now that the political reasons for that position have entirely evaporated — with regards to both the primary and the general election — the position will have to change. It’ll be hard for her to win over any significant chunk of the netroots, but I’m guessing that she’ll try to be in a sufficiently solid anti-war position by early 2008 that most primary voters see her as just another generally anti-Iraq-War Democrat. I don’t think she’ll get all the way there, but she’ll go part of the way and win some of the votes.
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